Give guidance and feedback to students' plans, encouraging, refining, and helping them to be responsible for their own learning. Maintain high expectations for completion of chosen options. Summarize by reviewing the whole, bringing students "full circle" to the experience with which the learning began.
Students discuss and write essays on difficulty of saving energy.
Objective: To enhance student ability to deal with unforeseen obstacles. To extrapolate problems to larger society.
Activity: Discussion (one class period) on difficulties encountered in attempting to improve energy efficiency in their homes. Extrapolate to larger society. After the discussion, students write essays on the problems they are encountering in their attempts to improve the energy efficiency in their homes.
